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Re: Discharging capacitors in your synths

2014-04-09 by Scott Frye


The ONLY caps that you would be concerned with ( IF IT ALL) are the power supply caps but you're only talking +/- 25 vdc at the most at the caps right off of the rectifier circuit.

I have never had an issue with needing to discharge caps on a synthe

Power amps, tubes amps?...Absolutely....I use a 10K 2watt resistor with leads and clips

Put across the UNPOWERED caps for about 30 secs
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Scott Frye

Audio-fixation.net

Vermont

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